No fans, no work: Arena workers caught in sports shutdown

David Edelman can usually be found at a Denver Nuggets basketball game or a Colorado Rapids soccer game. As an usher, he interacts with fans in a role he calls a staple of his life.

But there are no Nuggets games for at least a month. No Rapids games, either. And Edelman has no idea what he'll do now.

"This is what I do for a living," Edelman said earlier this week, as the realization hit that sports were going on hiatus because of the coronavirus.

"This is my income."
So have the NHL's Washington Capitals, among others, and the ownership group for Detroit's Pistons, Red Wings and Tigers on Friday said they were setting up a USD 1 million fund "to cover one month's wages for our part-time staff for games, concerts and events that they would have otherwise worked."
Cavaliers star Kevin Love pledged $100,000 to help the workers in Cleveland address what he described as their "sudden life shift."
"To have it all disappear, though obviously no one's fault."